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The Buddhist Society of SA [BSSA] and I have been inviting nuns to visit us here in Adelaide. So we are raising funds to build a little wooden kuti to provide accommodation for visiting monastics. Even more good news! We have a young Australian lady who wishes to train to become a nun and it is our intention that Read the full article…

Tomorrow my new Bhikkhuni teacher, Ayya Nirodha from Santi Forest Monastery, arrives in Adelaide for a 5 day visit. She is coming to spend time with me and to see my situation here. Naturally she wants to know that I am well supported here and I want to take every opportunity to receive teaching from Read the full article…

You are invited to join with us to celebrate the higher ordination of Ayya Santacari Bhikkhuni and to honour the 2600 anniversary of the founding of the Bhikkhuni order by the Buddha. To do this we will be having a full day [daylong] meditation retreat program. It will be the first time we have held Read the full article…

The Precious Opportunity to take Upasampada [Higher Ordination] has arisen for Santacari. It is a rare and precious thing to be able to take higher ordination as a fully ordained female monk [Bhikkhuni] in the Theravadan tradition. At this time in the world there are thousands of billions of people and perhaps a few million Read the full article…

Today the Buddhist Society of South Australia held its AGM at the Uniting church hall in Kensington Gardens. Ayya Santacari started off the day with a Dhamma talk about the awesome qualities of the Buddha. She also discussed AN 10.51 the sutta about training “Ones Own Mind”; Training the mind to discern between 10 beneficial Read the full article…

You are invited to participate in Vesak celebration from 10am on May 28th. Love to see you here at 79 Davis Ave Christies Beach South Australia We already planned to have a celebration here on May 28th. Then I realised – OH! its Vesak! Also called Weesak and Veshaka. It Read the full article…

I really enjoyed the blessing ceremony that we had in January this year. We had blessing chanting and Dana food offering to the monastics with a community meal following that. Several people who had wanted to come were not able to make it on that day, so I thought, lets have another one! More blessings are Read the full article…

This is an article written by my Bhikkhunī preceptor, Ayya Tathālokā Therī and shared here with you. This coming year, from the 2016 September full moon to the 2017 September full moon, is the 2600-year Anniversary of our worldwide Bhikkhunī Sangha. Many people know Bhikkhunī Ayya Tathālokā Therī as something of a historian or “her-storian” of our Read the full article…